Photograph Saturn with a Cheap Telescope: PART 1

I photograph Saturn on a budget of £75 from my roof in London with a cheap telescope and a webcam. We take on Nasa’s $1.4 billion Cassini mission and get Saturn's rings, we also manage to capture the moon and Jupiter. Enjoy!

[AspergerNerd]

"If you're looking down and you see 10 minutes or something, something's gone wrong."
*Part 1 - 11 mins*
XD

[mittenschannel]

These videos give me inspiration. Great stuff.

[scotlandsnightsky]

Love this wee series! Good to see Astrophotography within a budget for most people, not the thousands of pounds telescopes and cameras, should encourage more people, love to see more episodes like these

[IskandarRohadi]

I'm so glad I stumbled onto this channel

[Curdle]

I love the shots of London I didn’t realize the Thames swirls through it like that that is awesome. I love the uk never been there though

[AndyinMokum]

I love your series of videos. You've given me so many ideas. Here's one for you. Astrophotography using only Open source software. A Linux OS like Ubuntu or, PeppermintOS, a stacking program such as Siril. RAW file processing, using either Rawtherapee, or DarkTable and GIMP instead of Photoshop. All free and Open source and free to download and use however you want.


I know how you feel about the sodding mosquitoes. I used to live in basement flat on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. It was all very nice and very beautiful except for one thing. The bloody mosquitoes around the Prinsengracht are the size of chinook helicopters. If I left a window open on a warm summer's evening, the next morning I'd need a blood transfusion. Just hearing them in your video, has me all twitchy and wondering where my electric tennis racket is 🔭🤣.

[woody]

I just found this 4 year old video, great fun, thanks bunny

[guattodaddo]

Wait that was Furze? And you were filming a documentary?? Wow! Nice :)

[mbenjamin]

I am here for the rabbit great vid my friend cheers.

[marklondon]

I'd love to see a crossover with you and Colin Furze. Not sure what you'd do together, though...? Measure the speed of light over London's skyscrapers? Make a rocket powered star tracker?

[أفلاكالأفكار]

This is really fantastic stuff man, thanks for sharing

[Astrolavista]

I knew it! You work in television, that totally makes sense. I reckon it's possible to do Saturn for £30! Years ago ASDA were selling some astro suitable webcams for £1.97. I bought one and modded it and it worked. My latest camera is a Logitech 720C which cost £12. Total after modding with a proper nose piece was probably close to 20 quid but it's served me well for the last year or two with really nice results :)

[airijavit]

you got me into planet photography
thanks for sharing this i hope i get a cn130slt. Clear skies :)

[keepitshortnsweet]

I knew you had to have proper production expeience. It's a wonderful channel. I just wish you had more content to get me through the writer's strike.

[roderickwho]

Satin ?? Satin ??? Named after the Roman god of sheer fabrics ???? Great video, as usual. Thanks.

[marklydon]

Glad you said ring giant rather than giant ring.

[leewalker]

Ok been waiting for this, great video yet again thank you....BUT ....talk about dangling carrots when's part 2? keep up the great work!

[brianmorton]

Can you show us how to set up a goto mount so that it's easily done each time we take the scope out. I use a compass and always set up with scope facing due north and zero elevation.

[TRTelos]

Looks like my typical evening with a scope, although now I really can not stand the cold. Fortunate enough to have a small place in Spain where in 1 night have observed more than 10yrs in the north of UK. Highly recommend to save your cash from the VERY expensive scopes and buy a house abroard, only now covid stops me going, there is always somthing!
That Orion (UK) scope should be decent quality!

[nigelmorris]

Just found this great vid...what programs did I use for the web Cam